When Tracy (my lecturer in usw) suggested that Aoibheann, Sasha and myself should take the industry year and travel to Finland for the first term I immediately answered back, "I'm definitely not taking the year out, it'll be a waste of a year for me..." Little did I realise that the opportunity to up and start a fresh in a country I knew absolutely nothing about was exactly what I wanted and probably needed to get me out of my uni-rut. As the weeks went by and the more we chatted about the possible move Aoibheann and Sasha decided it wasn't for them...but for me this little finnish town with all the lakes and the forestry kept picking away at my brain. In May I started to look at what funding I could get and by
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